1
edit
Auld Lang Syne: Difference between revisions
From ScoutWiki, For Everyone, Everywhere involved with Scouting and Guiding...
no edit summary
Testtesttest (talk | contribs) No edit summary Tags: Manual revert 2017 source edit |
No edit summary Tags: Manual revert 2017 source edit |
||
| Line 5: | Line 5: | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
Robert Burns forwarded a copy of the original song to the Scots Musical Museum with the remark, “The following song, an old song, of the olden times, and which has never been in print, nor even in manuscript until I took it down from an old man".<ref name="lindsay">{{cite book |last=Lindsay |first=Maurice |title=The Burns Encyclopedia |origyear=1959 |url=http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/index.shtml |accessdate=2007-12-28 |edition=New Third Edition |year=1996 |month=December |publisher=Robert Hale Ltd. |location= |isbn=0-7090-5719-9 |pages=448 pages |chapter=Auld Lang Syne |chapterurl=http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/AuldLangSyne.5.shtml |ref=}}</ref> At the time it was fashionable to claim someone else's work. It was "traditional"; therefore, one should take Burns' statement with mild scepticism. Some of the lyrics were indeed "collected" rather than composed by the poet; the ballad "Old Long Syne" printed in 1711 by James Watson shows considerable similarity in the first verse and the chorus to Burns' later poem.<ref name="nls.uk"/> | Robert Burns forwarded a copy of the original song to the Scots Musical Museum with the remark, “The following song, an old song, of the olden times, and which has never been in print, nor even in manuscript until I took it down from an old man".<ref name="lindsay">{{cite book |last=Lindsay |first=Maurice |title=The Burns Encyclopedia |origyear=1959 |url=http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/index.shtml |accessdate=2007-12-28 |edition=New Third Edition |year=1996 |month=December |publisher=Robert Hale Ltd. |location= |isbn=0-7090-5719-9 |pages=448 pages |chapter=Auld Lang Syne |chapterurl=http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/AuldLangSyne.5.shtml |ref=}}</ref> At the time it was fashionable to claim someone else's work. It was "traditional"; therefore, one should take Burns' statement with mild scepticism. Some of the lyrics were indeed "collected" rather than composed by the poet; the ballad "Old Long Syne" printed in 1711 by James Watson shows considerable similarity in the first verse and the chorus to Burns' later poem.<ref name="nls.uk"/> | ||
It is a fair supposition to attribute the rest of the poem to Burns himself.<ref name="lindsay"/> | It is a fair supposition to attribute the rest of the poem to Burns himself.<ref name="lindsay"/> | ||
